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though it might be extended under the sitting
room. This part of the cellar might be used
as fuel room and thus dispense with wood
and coal sheds. 1t would certainly be easier
to go down the five extra steps which
would be necessary i'll going into
the cellar than it would be to
go the extra distance which is usual
in the placing of such sheds. With the fuel
and water in the house the housekeeper would
be saved a great deal of work. With the
kitchen sink it would be unnecessary even to
carry out the dish water.
There are two f1ue stacks in this building.
A base burner would warm the sitting room
and bedroom and temper the parlor A CRATE
fire in the parlor would complete the work of
heating that room.
The cut of the exterior tells its own story.
The porch has turned columns and frieze
decorated with scroll work. The window
seat may have windows at each end, as shown
in the floor plan, or panels, as indicated in the
elevation. There is a gable at the side and
over the window seat which extends the full
width of the sitting room.
LOUIS II. GIBSON.
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asvlums in all CONN., BARON DE SELLIERE.
tries, our own beloved land not excepted. AS
the baron was worth 100000 francs he was
too valuable prize for any private asylum to
let escape. Five thousand francs per month
were allowed for his board and another 5000
for contingent expenses" Yet when he
wore ont his shoes by much walking in order
to give himself the exercise necessary to keep
his brain clear he was told that he could have
uo more shoes. His walks about the grounds
were taken with keeper at each elbow and
another in the immediate vicinity. He fire.
duently walked about twenty-four miles a
day.
Meantime his friends organized a system
attic plan of abducting him from the asy-
lum Every thing was ready and the plan
was so well conceived and managed that it
could scarcely have failed. But when word
was surreptitiously conveyed to the baron
he refused to accept any but legal release.
NJ Graef, secretary Of M. Grevy, succeeded
in obtaining an interview with the baron.
Immediately after that the whole press of
Paris made an onslaught on the lunacy law
of 1885,
The baron was frequently subjected to the
injections of morphine, forced to inhale gas,
and in many ways reduced in health, both
physical and mental. 1t is his belief that if
he had not been released he would have been
murdered within the walls of his prison.
An eminent French physician, DR.. Col
lineau, wrote in 1870:
"Insane asylums are infernos at whose
portals all who enter must leave hope behind.
They are establishments for the production
of incurable madness. Imprisonment within
their walls becomes q systematic torture.
Absolute arbitrary power without check or
bounds prevails in those establishments.
They are under the rule of clandestine ire
sponsibility and organized despotism. These
asylums are oublietteS. The first conner
armed with a certificate from the first doctor
whom he meets may cause any citizen to be
flung into a madhouse without the least
process Of law"
The baron's case also demonstrates the
fallibility, bigotry and general pumpkin
headedness of the specialists in mental
diseases. or alienists. as they prefer to call
themselves In eminence and presumable
ability the alienists of France exceed those of
any other country. Yet they passed judg-
ment on the baron from behind the screens
and while he was saturated with opium. And
in spite of all evidence to the contrary, they
one and all insist that the baron was insane.
De Seilliere came here soon after his arri-
val in America, and expressed the intention
of remaining through the season. He does
not like to talk much to reporters, and has
horror of photographers or artists. The por-
trait given of him with this is pencil sketch
by a young lady telegraph operator, whose
fingers are trained to more than one kind of
deftness, and it is pronounced very fair
likeness by those who know the baron.
L. G.
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in the nunt for Observation-Disclosures with a
bit of science in it. The human mind is such
queer thing that it takes its rest in some
other kind of work. The games provided for
the purpose of resting it from its actual toll
are of kind to make it work, though in a
different direction.
There is the good cid game of croquet,
which in some places has had revival this
summer Elderly men take to croquet. Chill
dren like it. With this constituency, quite
outside of the usual class of players of games
the young men and young women-croquet
cannot die. 1t has another popularity which
will keep it alive. 1t has the faculty of MAX
ing players lose their tempers in higher
degree than any other form of recreation
known to the inhabitants of this planet. A
game played clear through without some
body getting full of wrath is not expected
one might say never happens.
Not all know that crOGuet is nearly half a
century old. 1t is a French invention. Or
dinary playing cards were invented to please
a sick French king. Croquet was invented
by a French physician named Guyard to
amuse his patients. He lived at Pau, which
is well known watering place in the south
of France. From Pau it was carried to Eng
land by the English visitors, and from Eng
land it came here.
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sented the Cologne cathedral with a monster
bell, in the casting OF which $4,000 pounds of
gun metal from orunance taken from the
French in battle had been used. But for ten
years the bell was silent, waiting for the con-
clusion of the unfriendly relations existing
between the government and the Catholic
Church, commonly known by the designation
'Kulturkampf." This hostility having lately,
however changed to a state of cordiality be-
tween the powers temporal and spiritual, tie
Archbishop Kremenz, on the 30th of last
June, consecrated the emperor's bell to its i'll
tended use.
The bells weigh 81 tons, the clapper alone
weighing 200 pounds; its height is almost Is
feet and its lower diameter nearly 12 feet
The casting was superintended by Andreas
Haum in Frankenthal, and required the
metal of % guns and 10000 pounds of tin.
The Latin inscription on one side of the bell
is translated into English:
His majesty. emperor of Germany and king of
Prussia, in grateful remembrance of the help Of
Heaven in the successful conduct and termina-
tion of the last war with France and the restora-
tion OF the German empire, has ordered that So
600 pounds Of metal from pieces Of ordnance
taken from the enemy be used for the casting of
a bell for this house of worship, now completed in
such admirable FORM In accordance with the will
of this most victorious and most picus prince the
Cathedral Building association had it cast, when
Plus. TX was pope and Paulus Melchers arch
bishop Of Cologne, in the year 1876
On the opposite side are the imperial arms,
with a German inscription in verse, which.
rendered into English, runs as follows:
The emp'ror's bell S my name;
His honor proclaim,
On sacred guard stay
And for the empire pray
That peace and strength
1t God may lend.
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Rates of Subscription.

THE DAY WE DO NOT CELEBRATE.
One broiling day in hot July,
John Adams said, long years gone by,
''This day, that makes people free,
Will be the peoples jubilee;
"With games, guns, sports and shows displayed,
With bells, pomp, bonfires and parade,
"O'er all this land, from shore to shore,
From this time forth forever more"
The years passed on, and by and by,
Mems hearts grew cold in hot July.
and one New England mayor said, ~.
"Of rockets l am sore afraid; 81
"And whose sends one up ablaZe, ~
Ill send him up for twenty days"
Then said the Mayor O'Day McQuadc,
"Thayre w no made fur no perade."
And Mayor Hans Won Schwartzenmeyer,
Proclaimed I'm haf me no bonfier."
Said Mayor Baptiste Raphael,
mo make-a.rnga data bell"
SPY gar" said Mayor Jean Crapaud,
Wis July games will has TO co.
And Mayor Knud Christofferrssonn
Cried, "Djeath to him who fires gjunn!"
last, said Mayor wun Lung See,
''Too muchee hoopla bobbereeI'
And so the Yankee holiday
IN 1900 passed away.
Brooklyn Eagle.
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1SS2-Jan. 13, collision on the Hudson River
railroad near Spuyten Duyvl; lives lost, in
Guiding Senator Webster Wagner.
1SS3-March 30, loss of SO lives by a railroad ac-
cident on the Cincinnati Southern railroad near
Mason's Station, o. June 90, Is Cinnamon killed
by an accident on the Northern Pacific railroad
in Montana. July %, accident on the Rome, Wa
tertown and Ogdensburg road at Carlyon, N. Y. /;
% persons killed; over 40 injured. Nov. %, IS
persons killed at st. Mien, France.
1SS4-Jan 2, 25 persons killed by railroad col
lision near Toronto. May /, collision near Con-
nellsville, Pa, IA lives lost. June 6, IA persons
killed by accident on the Missouri Pacific rail.
road near Mineola. June II, IA persons killed by
disaster at New Laredo, N. NJ. June 2S, train
falls through bridge near Cunningham, %, 90
persons killed or wounded. July 16, accident on
the Manchester and Sheffield railway, England,
25 lives lost Nov. IA, Is persons perish in col.
liSion at Hanau, Austria.
1SS67Jan. 80, railroad disaster near Sydney, N
s. W., 40 persons killed. June s, a train derailed
by robbers near Rasloff, Russia, 20 persons killed
and wounded Oct. IS, collision between three
Pennsylvania railroad trains near Jersey City, 12
persons killed. Dec. l5, collision near Anstell,
Ca, 10 lives lost.
lSS6-Jan. 49, train wrecked at Valdivia Peru;
30 soldiers perish. March 10, collision between
Monte Carlo and Mentone, Italy; 20 persons
killed Sept. A. collision on the "Nic,,el Plate''
road near Buffalo, % lives lost. Oct. %, disaster
near Rio, Wis; 10 passengers burned to death.
Nov. 8, train wrecked near Nikolaiev and Odessa,
Russia; 30 soldiers killed. Dec. is, collision at
Charkow, Russia; 10 persons perish,
1SS1-Jan. 4, collision near Tiffin, o.; 20 lives
lost. Feb. 5, part of a train plunged through a
bridge over White river, near Woodstock, VT: 38
persons killed. March IA, a train fell through the
stin bridge" on the outskirts Of Boston; 30 per-
sons killed. May 6, collision on the Atlantic and
Pacific road in New Mexico; 10 lives lost. July
IS. collision between passenger train and an oil
train ct St. Thomas, Ont; 12 persons killed. July
q. an express train on the Erie railroad plunged
into company of Italian laborers near Hohokus.
N. j.; IS men killed or fatally wounded. Aug. 10,
nine crowded cars drop through bridge at
Chatsworth, Ills.; nearly 100 killed and several
hundred wounded.
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BENNINGTON MONUMENT. for the sickle.
But he did not hesitate between profit and
patriotism His wheat was never harvested; :;
but be had the satisfaction of having taken
part in the most brilliant conflict of the
American revolution.
The battle of Bennington was blow aimed
by Burgoyne to capture the stores at that
place. Col. Baum led the invasion. The
American forces were under Stark Baums
Indians proved towards and ran away The
New England troops fought hand to hand
with the Brunswickers and scaled the batter
les While pushing on his own men Baum
was killed. This victory was won by the
brave farmers of Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. Thirty Americans were
killed and twice as many of the enemy. The
Americans took 692 prisoners, two-thirds of
whom were Germans.
Coming as this battle did after series of
defeats calculated to depress the hearts of
any people, it greatly elated our patriotic
fathers, and may well be considered the turn
ing point in the great war for freedom.
The monument will stand on State Arms
hill. which rises 800 feet above a valley
When completed it will be shaft 301 feet
high, built of dolemite, which Is a magnetism
limestone of great durability. The base
measurement will be II feet and the apex 2
feet. The shaft is to have a rough finish, the
stones having their natural split faces, the
whole held together with Portland cement
At the height of 200 feet there will be an en-
tablature of s feet, and IA feet above that
another entablature II feet square. The faces
of these entablatures will be of dressed stone,
and will encircle the shaft. Below the low
est entablature there are to be openings, and
16 feet under these other openings. The door
of entrance is to be Of heavy oak, with bronze
fittings There viii be an interior staircase
leading to the higher entablature. The archi-
tect, Mr.. j. Philip Rim, of Boston, has done
his best to erect memorial shaft which will
give no suggestions of an observatory.
The plan is furnished by Professor John F.
aiv
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THE BENNINGTON BATTLE
Monument Which Is to Com
memOrafe IT.
And

And Monument Which Is to Com
memorate 1t.
Bennington is the oldest town i'll southern
Vermont; the most noted, too. So well did
the people thereabout like the name they
used it on three villages, with variations
North Bennington, Bennington Center and
Bennington. The last mentioned, the un-
modified and unqualified Bennington, has
1000 inhabitants. 1t was once East Ben
nington, and before that Algiers. Benning-
ton Center was once the main village, and
contained the county buildings and the state
arms house. This was a brick structure
which contained the arms and ammunition
which Baum set out to destroy
Now the fact is that, although Bennington
makes an annual fuss and has set up monu-
ment and otherwise carried on enthusias-
tically, the famous battle was not fought on
Vermont soil. 1t was fought i'll Hoosick,
Rensselaer, county, n. Y, Aug. 16, 17T.
But it has been a godsend to Bennington all
the same. They do say that if it had not
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over lofty mount GEN. DONIPHAN.
aims, dispersed the Mexican forces defending
Santa Fe, entered that ancient capital and
annexed all New Mexico to the United States.
Late in September Kearny started for Cali
fornia with several companies of dragons,
leaving Doniphan in command of New Mex
leo, with orders to reduce the Navajoes on
the western slope of the Rocky mountains to
submission. Crossing the mountains, Gen.
Doniphan quickly subdued the Indians. On
Dec. IA he started for central Mexico. The
force passed through a desert in whose
length of ninety miles neither wood nor
water was to be found, and were about going
into camp on Christmas day when the cry
ran along the ranks that the enemy was in
front. Doniphan quickly formed his line of
battle and awaited the attack. The
Mexicans charged, but in less than an
hour they were in full retreat, leaving
over 200 dead and wounded upon the
field. Not single Missourian was killed, and
only seven We're wounded. On March l he
took possession of chihuahua. Learning that
Gen. Wool was at Saltillo, 200 miles away,
Doniphan set out for that place, and on May
21 bivouacked near the battlefield of Buena
Vista. The war on that line being ended,
Taylor ordered the Missourians to Brazos
Santiago, where they embarked for New
Orleans, and were mustered out of service.
The regiment was welcomed home in a speech
by Senator Benton and an enthusiastic popu-
lar demonstration.
Resuming the practice of his profession,
Gen. Doniphan led a quiet life until 1861,
when he was one of five delegates appointed
to represent Missouri in the peace confer
ence, and was one of the five from the border
states who, by special invitation, Leld an in
terview with President Line 4 to counsel
and advise as to the best method of preserving
peace, maintaining the Union and settling
the difficulties that then environed the nation.
He was the last of the five to ''pass over to
the other side"
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She Couldn,s Comply with the Demands.

She Couldn's Comply with the Demands.
A collier and his wife, who were constantly
having high old times, were up before the
local stipendiary the other day, the wife
charged by her husband for violently assault
ing him and biting off piece of his nose.
The collier admitted that he was bit gone,
and had all the worst of the shindy. His
worship, in stigmatizing the case as one OF
exceptionally brutal character, said he re-
gretted that he was not able to imprison
either the complainant or defendant, and that
ne was sorry that all be could do was to bind
the wife over to keep the peace for six months.
Upon the fair one hearing this, she remarked
in bewilderment:
"Eh, master, but Gamma. guv it to th'
cat"-Liverpool Mercury.
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A Friend Needed.

The beach is basking in the sun,
The waves break on the shore,
And l sit here to watch for one
Whom ali the girls adore.
lie comes, the youth / fain would "mash,
And 'mongst all others choose
he wears a curly blonde mustache
And patent leather shoes
How blue his eyes, how straight his nose,
How neatly brushed his hairl
HJw dewy fresh the little rose
That forms his boutonnierei
He passes on with careless tread
can but sit and frown;
No friend the magic word has said,
Miss jenkins, Mr.. Brown!'
Chicago News.
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been for q farmer
of Cam b id ge,
Washington coun-
ty, N. Y, this fight
never would have
come off at all, or,
coming off, it would
not have termi-
mated in such a
glorious victory.
This f a rm e RS
name was John
Weir. He heard of
Baum's design, and
rushed off to Ben
nington to notify
the people of the
arrival of the Hes
slams in Cambridge.
He had ffteen e n
aorac of wheat ripe
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This gentleman
will still lack a
few weeks of being
81 years old when
he takes his seat,
being forty years
younger than the
Oldest member of
the house. Young
as he is, Mr.. Phelan
has already won
an enviable repu-
tation, and is so
popular at home
that the Demo-
Gratis of his district
nominated him by
acclamation, CIV
ING him 1000 ma
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jority at the ensuing election. As his name
indicates, he is of Irish blood; but he was
born in Mississippi, his father having been
member of the Confederate congress. He
was educated in Kentucky and at Leipsic,
Germany; and not only from his education,
but from what he has already achieved,
bright future is predicted for him. As one Of
the rising young men of the south, of that
vast majority who have come to manhood
since the war ended, his career will be noted
with unusual interest.
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IN A FRENCH MADHOUSE.
The Story of a Baron Unlawfully In
carcerated.
Especial Correspondence

carcerateus
Especial Correspondence
NEWPORT, Aug 22-In the matter of in
generating men and women in mad houses,
they do not order things better in France The
story of Baron de Seilliere, who was illegally
imprisoned in madhouse and permitted by
the authorities to remain there sixty-two days
and nights, is one to open wide the eyes Oh
any country that loves justice.
The French lunacy law is a particularly lax
one, nor are we far behind it. The certificate
of one physician to the effect that man Is
insane is quite enough to put him behind bars
and keep him there as long as the physician
pleases. The wish of one of his relatives Is
regarded as the official expression of the en-
tire family The proprietors of the celebrated
private asylums in Paris and its vicinity are
careful to conceal their own responsibility as
much as possible in every case of doubtful in
sanity with which they are asked to deal.
Baron de Seilliere was incarcerated in the
Etablissement Fabret, near the quiet village
of Vauves; but DIR. Fabret, the head of the
institution, engaged DIR. Mollet, head OF
another institution, to make the preliminary
examination of the baron. Before that ex-
animation took place DR.. Fabret took good
care to reduce the baron to a condition bor-
dering on imbecility by means of morphine,
and then secreted DR.. Mollet behind screen
while he piled the baron with exasperating
questions.
The baron was induced to visit the asylum
on the pretext that his cousin, the Prince de
Bergh, was there very i'll and had repeatedly
asked to see him. As soon as he was within
the house tie baron was seized by three power
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THE LATE GEN. DONlPHAN.
A Veteran of the Mexican War Who
Died at Richmond, Mo.

Died at Richmond, Mo.
The death of Gen. Alexander w. Doniphan,
who was veteran Of the Mexican war, was
recorded but a few days ago, taking place at
his home in Richmond, Mo. He was for
many years a conspicuous figure. Born near
Maysville, Ky, in July, 1903, of a revolution
airy ancestry, he was graduated at the age of
10 from the Methodist college at Augusta
KY. In 1929, after due course of study, he
was admitted to practice in the courts of
Ohio and Kentucky. In 1880 he removed to
Lexington, Mo-, and thence to Liberty, then
on the border of civilization, three years
later. In 1886 he represented his county in
the state legislature, and ON two subsequent
occasions was elected to the same position.
In 1888 he was a brigadier general of
the Missouri militia, and his brigade
was part of the force which the governor
sent to drive the Mormons out of the state.
He was prominent in Kansas in the days
when rufiianism was rampant there. In 1916,
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just Home from Europe.

See that youth who looks elated,
And who walks with reeling gait,
Like to one inebriated,
And in quite helpless state;
Swelled with pride, just see him swagger,
Happy that his gait is conned,
For It's quite the thing to stagger
When you've been across the pond"
Boston Budget.
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A NEAT COTTAGE PLAN.
HOW TO BUILD A CONVENIENT
LITTLE HOUSE FOR $1,000.
A One Story Dwelling That Is Arranged
Conveniently, Has Bath Room, and
Presents Very Attractive Outside.
The Plans Fully Described.
Especial Correspondence.

Especial Correspondence.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 23.-This house can
be built for 81 900. 1t is one story cottage,
containing five rooms, bath room and a
pantry. Such a house is suited to young
people of moderate means, or possibly to
older ones, where there are no children or
where the housekeeper does her own work.
1t will be seen that it gives more of the con-
veniences of larger house than are usually
found in a cottage of this size.
From the porch we pass into a little vesti-
bule, which might be made larger by throw
ing into it the closet which opens from the
sitting room. From the vestibule we go
either into the parlor or the sitting room.
This parlor could be used as the living room
of the house and the sitting room as the
dining room, and still meet all the conditions
of good housekeeping. Off from the sitting
room is a projection, which could be very
comfortably arranged as window seat. 1t
could be used as such during warm weather
and as place for plants during the winter.
In the corner of this room is a closet, which
may be connected with the kitchen by slide.
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Scllla, utular arcH-
bishop of Petra and
recent envoy extra
ordinary of tn e
pope at the court
of Victoria, queen
of England. He
took with him, on
the occasion of the
queens jubilee, the
congratulations OF
the pope, and was
charged with the
mission of re-estab-
fishing political re-
lations between the
Vatican and the
Births h govern
mont The Roman